14 to 19

14 to 19 education in the UK

Problems with exams

Posted on | December 8, 2011 |

The Daily Telegraph has published a detailed and extensive expose of the way in which Awarding Bodies appear to be “manipulating” the GCSE system.  The link is here and it makes very interesting reading

Unlike GCSE, Functional Skills has defined skills criteria that every assessment must test - it makes it much harder to design a test that “can be taught to”.

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